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2012-10-01

by shaenon on October 1, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Andrew
    October 1, 2012, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    And the deluge begins.

  2. abb3w
    October 1, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    …standard paradox attack, with a modified GNU recursion gambit maybe? “PINTA Is Not This Acronym”?

    Nah. Probably something more subtle.

  3. Scthree
    October 1, 2012, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    Suddenly picturing GODOT as a disgrunted GhostWriter.

  4. Anderson
    October 1, 2012, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Give it “Nanobot-powered undead supersoldier called U.N.I.T.Y.”. I bet that’ll go down well. Reaaaaaally well.

  5. Bartimaeus
    October 1, 2012, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    Wait, that was GODOT doing the writing!!

  6. Cait
    October 1, 2012, 4:02 am | # | Reply

    Let’s see… Next comes “I have a device to force GODOT to comply with our demands. This is the name I picked for it.”?

    • eddddd the mad genius
      October 1, 2012, 4:51 am | # | Reply

      No the next thing is a device to increase her girlness, titled TIP

  7. Eddurd
    October 1, 2012, 4:27 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: Theme to “Spider-Man”, Harris & Webster)

    Acronym! Acronym!
    If you give any word to him,
    He will write, no delays,
    Quite a proper, fitting phrase!
    Jump back!
    Wow, what an ac-ro-nym!

    Winter, spring, summer, fall,
    He’s the handwriting on the wall!
    He can read, he can spell,
    He can damn his flaws to hell!
    To him,
    Life is an ac-ro-nym!

     She will write some more
     ’Til her fingers get cramps!
     Using words bizarre
     That would stump Scrabble champs!

    Acronym! Acronym!
    Try to stump him, the odds are slim!
    What a fight! Come and see
    A.I. versus Violet Bee!
    We’ll see
    If she’s a Bee of spelling!
    Now give a cheer, we’re yelling
    Yelling for AC-RO-NYM !!

    • Dewy
      October 1, 2012, 6:35 am | # | Reply

      Scrabble champs as scrabble cramp for some reason. Made the whole thing much funnier for some reason. I need help.

  8. top1950
    October 1, 2012, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    Quick! Somebody write U.N.I.T.Y. on the wall!

    • Sparks
      October 1, 2012, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      Undead
      Nanotechnically-
      Integrated
      Thuggish
      Youth

    • awgiedawgie
      July 7, 2019, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      Undead, Nanite Infested, and Threaded with Yarn.

  9. Rob, Arbiter of Reality
    October 1, 2012, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    The question today is, since Violet Bee is (presumably) a non-organic sentient, can she perceive G.O.D.O.T.’s controlled pareidolia? That is, read the writing on the wall? Or does she only see the letters she wrote, thus requiring the services of Dr. Lee or Sergio to communicate?

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      October 1, 2012, 8:15 am | # | Reply

      I’m willing to bed GODOT has methods.

      Either way, this was a pretty clever method that Violet used. 🙂

    • PDP15
      October 1, 2012, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

      I was just wondering the same thing. Totally different mechanism required.

    • PDP15
      October 1, 2012, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, we know the answer. Reviewing the strip, Violet Bee saw the writing on the moon.

      • WJS
        July 7, 2019, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        No, Sergio saw the writing on the moon. We only assumed that all three of them could see it.

    • Rex Vivat
      October 2, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      I’m here from one strip in the future! …the answer’s no, she can’t 😛

  10. Joyce
    October 1, 2012, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    It’s NOT a perfect acronym, it has an ampersand in it. It’s pretty darn good, though. 🙂

    • Andrew
      October 1, 2012, 11:53 am | # | Reply

      And what’s wrong with an ampersand? (I’m rather partial to them.)

      • M. Alan Thomas II
        October 1, 2012, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

        Indeed; “et,” like “and,” would be dropped from most acronyms.

  11. Saberbeam
    October 1, 2012, 11:45 am | # | Reply

    This comic brings to mind Henry Kuttner’s comedy, sci-fi short story “The Proud Robot”. I’d provide a link, but it seems to be one of those things that’s aggravatingly hard to find (for free at least) on the internet.

    So perhaps Violet Bee is going force GODOT to constantly create acronyms until it gives up and lets them in?

    • Smithnik
      October 1, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      Like a lot of good science fiction, “The Proud Robot” is actually available in legitimate, non-pirated e-book form. It may not be free, but it’s only 99 cents. Try this link:
      http://www.amazon.com/The-Proud-Robot-ebook/dp/B0073V0630

  12. Stewart
    October 1, 2012, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    Just read through the entire archives over the past three days or so (phew).

    Dr Lee mentioned half of UNITY’s acronym in one of the old strips, but I can’t remember where. Something Unified Necrotic … something.

    • Stewart
      October 1, 2012, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

      (Not to find her acronym, mind–just because I was new to the comic. Great stuff!)

    • Rex Vivat
      October 2, 2012, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      I wasn’t Dr. Lee, it was Violet. http://skin-horse.com/2010/todays-comic-299/

  13. mittfh
    October 1, 2012, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

    If someone wrote PERL, would it expand it to (a) Practical Extraction and Report Language, (b) Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, or (c) something else? 🙂

    Better still, see if giving it a recursive acronym confuses it – try the GNU HURD for size 😀

    GNU = GNU’s Not Unix!
    HURD = HIRD of Unix-replacing daemons.
    HIRD = HURD of interfaces representing depth.

    • mnementh
      October 1, 2012, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, I’ve heard of Gnus.

      mnem
      Gnus to you, too!

  14. mittfh
    October 1, 2012, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

    Just thought… since GODOT is spelled entirely in capitals, maybe it’s an acronym… and if it isn’t (yet), see if it can compile a backronym for itself 😀

    • PDP15
      October 1, 2012, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      GODOT: Genetic Organism Designed Only for Thought — that was revealed back at the start of the storyline.

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